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- Summary: The latest full-length release from the Appalachian folk band was recorded during the same sessions as its 2012's Wompyjawed EP.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Country, Folk, Americana, Contemporary Folk, String Bands
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Feb 22, 2013Welcome to 21st century Appalachian string band music. It hasn't changed that much. It doesn't have to, because it still works fine.
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The WireFeb 28, 2013The Twigs sound tough and robust, ready to take on the whole world rather than cultivate one small part of it. [Feb 2013, p.45]
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Feb 22, 2013Rough Carpenters sounds vibrant and enveloping, an old-time feat for these mercurial times.
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UncutFeb 20, 2013With Rough Carpenters, the pickers are deeply respectful of the revenant forms they're extending, but the music is never leaden. [Mar 2013, p.67]
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Feb 20, 2013It doesn’t feel like a trip back into the past, but rather a reminder that the present need not be filtered through whatever technologies we’ve dreamed up.
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Feb 20, 2013By calling their album Rough Carpenters, the Pickers are inevitably alluding to their creations as constructs of old timber, offered up with spontaneity and passion rather than precision. But it’s also a misleading moniker, for what is unquestionably the group’s smoothest ride yet.
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Feb 20, 2013Not much of a change then, is it? But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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Feb 24, 2013
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